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The Immigration Card Said Three - Who Erased the Two-Year-Old?
The Immigration Card Said Three - Who Erased the Two-Year-Old?
A discarded immigration card found in a snowplow’s cardboard box proves Marta Kowalczyk arrived in October 1951 with three children - not two - and names a two-year-old whose existence vanished from every family record. How did a child registered at the Port of New York, enrolled at a parish school in 1953, and recorded on federal paper simply disappear from the town’s history?
In this episode, we follow Linda Simmons as she unexpectedly uncovers the immigration card, catalogues family archives, requests parish records, and pieces…
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